karashta

The person thinks inflation and pyramid schemes are the same thing. I think your argument is falling on deaf ears.

Pause.

I’m not sure most people understand how neoclassical economics is based on “arm chair general” style models largely divorced from reality.

And how horrible an ideology it really is to have had infiltrate every aspect of western life and culture.

The more I look at it, the more I see how a large part of our current societal issues can be laid at the feet of this ideology masked as science.

Alan Moore

Saga of the Swamp Thing and Watchmen are two amazing runs of comics he wrote.

Huge fan of his recent-ish novel, Jerusalem.

Fuck the US car industry and fuck Tesla.

Just to be fair: Fuck China, too.

I’ve seen this and known the end was coming since I was a teenager 25 years ago.

Who care about consumer spending when I’ve been watching the current biosphere die off for my whole adult life?

I’m supposed to save for a future in a society that’s pretty obviously collapsing as the biosphere deteriorates?

I don’t have zero hope for the future but the idea that this current infinite expansion system can continue is obviously wrong.

Literally boots.

Work boots for my jobs doing physical labor. I would spend around or slightly under $100 every year for a new pair because theater, construction and pest control destroyed a pair a year.

Then I bought Redwings for close to $300. They lasted 3 years before the pandemic and likely would continue to last in those types of career for years to come.

I don’t.

I’ve even read philosophical works that go against what I think and feel and spend the entire time arguing with someone who has probably been dead for hundreds of years.

But I enjoy that from time to time to keep my mind sharp.

No point in reading something that doesn’t grab you and resonate with you. Life is too short to put myself through that.

It’s the same with a lot of us millennial people.

I graduated into a job market still largely crushed by the dotcom bubble bursting, had my entire life and career path destroyed by the GFC, then another destroyed by covid.

Let me just spend a third of my monthly food allowance on food I can make better myself to please the downtown economy god, I guess lmfao.

I’ve only blocked a few communities and my feed is not only negativity.

It can be at times when something big drops in the news, but my feed is still flooded with fun memes and interesting articles.

Sounds like, at least partially, it’s confirmation bias.

The American political system has done nothing but ratchet to the right for about a hundred years.

It’s so far right that people think liberals are left wing. That shit is center right lmao

Navi from Ocarina of Time.

Literally the Clippy of Zelda.

“Hey! Listen!”

How about shut the fuck up you stupid firefly from hell?

https://realprogressives.org/debt-ceilings-for-dummies/

Just gonna drop this here to try and spread some knowledge.

I’m one of those people who has never really stopped having cravings. It only gets bad when I’m really stressed but it is low key there 24/7.

Thankfully, it’s only really a battle when I’m stressed.

There’s been a documented decline of about 70% in animal populations, the amount of weather and climate related destruction has demonstrably increased, there’s traces of plastic and forever chemicals almost literally all over, Australia was on fire for half a year, wildfires are increasing in frequency in the western US, hurricanes are coming with increasing frequency and intensity from the gulf up the Atlantic.

There’s also the fires that tore across Greece, the tornadoes forming in states in the US that have seemingly never had them before, the massive loss of ice from Arctic and Antarctic areas of the world.

This is just a small smattering of the things I remember from recently.

I’m not saying that next year everything is going to immediately collapse. But I can see the stability of the ecosphere dissolving in front of me and there are quite a few nations that seem like they are leaning towards collapse if history is any judge of things.

You’re welcome. It’s just so plainly obvious when laid out logically. I feel stupid for having not seen it in the previous 30 something years. Spread the word!

I feel like too many people take being corrected like this as a sign that I’m trying to be condescending when, to me, it’s a simple courtesy I hope other people extend to me as well when I mess up.

I think this is the place to post this so hopefully others can see the truth

https://realprogressives.org/debt-ceilings-for-dummies/

We don’t need to tax the rich to fund shit. We need to tax them to remove their insane power in our political and economic system.

How can our government run out of the money it creates ex nihilo?

The “debt” is just the count of dollars that haven’t been destroyed through taxation.

“Karashta, you don’t want kids? You’d make a great dad.”

I’ve been asked this several times by close friends since my early 20s. My response has always been about what I feel is the irresponsibility of bringing a child I will desperately love into a world that I’ve seen crumbling around me since my teens.

People called me stupid for believing in things like the oncoming ecological and societal collapses, despite me trying to show them what I’d seen and read.

Somehow, “I told you so,” doesn’t, in any way, make me feel better about the situation.

Then you should be fine with people smoking weed since there’s evidence of its use since 10,000 BC. About 7000 years before the creation of beer by the Egyptians